# If you are white and were called a "wypipo", would you be offended?

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**Created:** [May 7, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752 "2018-05-07T14:22:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-are-white-and-were-called-a-wypipo-would-you-be-offended/813752/29 "2018-05-07T17:46:32Z")

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> [@Jasmine](#):
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> [**“NegusWhoRead”**](http://neguswhoread.com/wypipo-explained/)
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> Found this via Google. To say it is an afro-centric web site would be the understatement of the day, but the segment below was interesting nevertheless.

I am not the target of the OP’s question. But I have a childhood memory of watching an episode of Oprah where there was a white supremacist on the show outlining the “differences” between black people and niggers. I don’t find the list above any less moronic.

If you have a problem with all white people, and you have the ability to enunciate your reasoning, then do so. If you have a problem with a specific subset of white people, then elaborate on who those people are, why you have the problem with them, and what they have in common beyond being white. Don’t equate them with everyone who happens to be white. Don’t come up with some stupid name for them that leaves a lot of ambiguity about who you’re referring to. Don’t use “nicknames” as an excuse to be racist. At best, it’s lazy. And it is never “at best.”

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